1893 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1893?
- January 13, 1893 – The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- January 17, 1893 – The Citizen’s Committee of Public Safety, led by Lorrin A. Thurston, overthrows the government of Queen Liliuokalani of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
- January 19, 1893 – Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
- January 21, 1893 – The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
- February 28, 1893 – The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
- April 6, 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- April 8, 1893 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
- May 1, 1893 – The World’s Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
- May 10, 1893 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883.
- June 7, 1893 – Mohandas Gandhi’s first act of civil disobedience.
- June 20, 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
- July 11, 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- July 25, 1893 – The Corinth Canal in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece is used for the first time.
- August 14, 1893 – France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- September 16, 1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- September 19, 1893 – Women’s suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
- September 20, 1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
- October 28, 1893 – Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique, receives its première performance in St. Petersburg, only nine days before the composer’s death.
- November 7, 1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.
- November 28, 1893 – Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
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